About the OpenBSD Journal

Purpose

The OpenBSD Journal is a site dedicated to providing news and
information of interest to members of the OpenBSD community.

The site is run by a small group of volunteers.

Although several OpenBSD developers are registered users of
the site, and the site receives frequent contributions from OpenBSD
developers, the OpenBSD Journal is not associated
with the OpenBSD project. (Therefore, misc@ is
not the appropriate place to discuss undeadly.org!)

Historical Context

Welcome to the new OpenBSD Journal
From 2000 to
April 1st 2004,
this journal was well known as
deadly.org.
The administrators and editors
James (Jim) Phillips and
Jose Nazario did a great job,
providing a valuable service for the OpenBSD community for years.

On April 1st 2004,
much to the surprise and confusion of most readers,
they announced
the retirement of the journal. Initially, people didn't realize they weren't
just pulling an April's fool joke, but were dead serious.

When reality dawned upon the readers, there were two questions. What
happens to the existing archive of articles and comments? And who is
going to step in and fill the gap? Initially, I just wanted to copy
the web pages in case the original server would suddenly dissappear
completely. Studying the PHP generated pages, relatively simple
patterns emerged, and I started writing a CGI that would allow to
browse the archive backup read-only, to preserve the over 1100
articles and 14000 comments, which might otherwise be lost.

Jim and Jose kindly gave permission to use the archive, those articles
and comments are copyright of their respective authors. So the primary
goal, preserving the vast pool of information and entertainment from
the original OpenBSD Journal is achieved. I'd like to thank both
Jim and Jose for their hard work during all those years, and for
allowing their work to be preserved here. Thank you!

Well, it turned out that adding support for submitting new articles
and comments wasn't much of a deal after that, so here's my
proposal
for a new OpenBSD Journal. There's much to be done, both in code
features and, most importantly, in editing new articles. Volunteers
are most welcome, drop us a
mail.
-- Daniel Hartmeier,
April 9th 2004